Divers Recover Body From Capsized Boat

State Briefs

NORWICH — State police divers have recovered the body of a local man who had been missing since a small boat carrying him and four others capsized late Friday in the Shetucket River, police said.

The victim, Freddie D. Johnson, 35, was found underwater Saturday evening near where the boat tipped over, police said. The body was taken to the state medical examiner's office in Farmington for an autopsy.

Police said the victim was the brother of Terry Johnson, who was convicted in the 1991 slaying of State Trooper Russell Bagshaw.

Four other men in the boat with Johnson were able to swim to shore, police said.

The incident, which occurred just before midnight Friday, remains under investigation, Lt. Robert J. Aldi said.